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Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) November 8-11 at W2
COAST SALISH TERRITORIES (Vancouver) – The Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) will be showcasing the best of cutting-edge Indigitized artists and their works November 8-11 at a handful of venues on Coast Salish Territories.
VIMAF brings together special guests from across Turtle Island, including Alanis Obomsawin, who will be presented with VIMAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She will be joined by directors and producers from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and BC. Their works will be shown at the West Coast’s only Native media arts festival, including a variety of mediums such as short films, music videos, documentaries, video art, animation, feature length films, interactive media, video projection, and broadcasting.
Programming at the weekend festival will celebrate a number of trailblazing artists from around Turtle Island with Gala and Conference events, interactive installations, National Film Board (NFB) feature film premieres, and evening musical programs, all meshing traditional and contemporary experiences of Indigenous Peoples. A number of prominent featured installations and films will be making their west coast debut at VIMAF, including NFB/imagineNATIVE partnership De Nort, an online interactive journey and onsite installation from the Winnipeg/Montreal ITWĒ Collective exploring life and experiences on a northern Manitoba reserve and how through forced reservation traditional memories and knowledge are being replaced.
“Presenting web-based work alongside radio, television,and cinema really show the multi-platform storytelling strategies being used to tell our stories,” said Ronnie Harris, member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee. “Using digital tools is a popular strategies for Indigenous storytellers on the West Coast.”
NFB Film premieres include Director Alanis Obomsawin’s The People of the Kattawapiskak River, returning Residential School lens We Were Children, West Coast Smokin’Fish, Every Emotion Costs, and others. VIMAF and W2 Community Media Arts Society resident media artist, Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), will also be projecting, Wuulhu – To Fuse Together, a series of digital installations throughout Festival home venue, W2, for the weekend. Musical offerings fuse traditional sounds with cutting edge electronic-influenced sets provided by the East Coasts’ A Tribe Called Red, and locals Skookum Sound System, as well as DJ’s Annashay, Vancouver DMC Finalist DJ Krisp, and others.
The 2012 Festival will be headquartered at W2, with other events taking place at SFU Woodward’s Cinema, National Film Board – Pacific Region, and Fortune Sound Club. “Anchoring the Festival in Vancouver’s original settlement is fitting,” says Harris, “we are using the Woodward’s media hub which is made up of W2, SFU and the NFB, to bring a focal point for understanding what is Indigenous culture today in the centre of the city.”
For more information and the full schedule of events visit www.vimaf.com
Media Contacts: Ronnie Harris (Sto:lo), Member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee
Eugene Boulanger (Sombah K’e, Denendeh), VIMAF Coordinating Committee
eugene@creativetechnology.org /
Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), VIMAF Media Artist-in-Residence
bracken.hanuse.corlett@gmail.com /
Visit W2: Community Media Arts Vancouver BC at: http://www.creativetechnology.org/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
URBAN BARN DANCE for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Sunday November 4, 2012
URBAN BARN DANCE
Sunday November 4, 7:30pm – 9pm
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender
The Festival’s closing night community dance is so popular and so much fun that the dance carries on year after year as a Festival tradition! We are pleased to welcome back the musical fun of DTES resident Russell Shumsky on marimba and percussion; Bud Kurz on guitar; fiddler Kathleen Nisbet; and our dance caller Marlin Prowell. If you’ve never danced a step in your life, here is your chance to get your feet wet in a musical celebration across generations. Follow the dance caller’s instructions and you’ll be an expert in minutes. Grab your friends, neighbours, the whole family, and head on down to this toe-tappin’ heartwarming ending for this year’s DTES Heart of the City Festival. Pay what you can
This event was on Day 12 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
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AUUC COMMUNITY CONCERT & SUPPER for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Sunday November 4, 2012
Community Celebrations
AUUC COMMUNITY CONCERT & SUPPER
Sunday November 4, 3pm
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender
The festival ends on a high note with the annual Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) concert and supper at the Ukrainian Hall. The AUUC is pleased to present their season opening concert on the closing afternoon of the Festival. The concert offers a welcoming atmosphere of Ukrainian traditions, lively music, invigorating dance and colourful costumes. Featuring all of the Hall’s performing arts groups: the Barvinok Choir led by choral director Beverly Dobrinsky; the Vancouver Folk Orchestra – one of the oldest and largest folk orchestras in Vancouver; and the award-winning Dovbush Dancers.
Special guests include Axé Capoeira with dynamic Brazilian dances and percussion; brilliant spoken word artist Zaccheus Jackson of the Blackfoot Nation; DTES poet and performer Muriel Marjorie; and a thrilling aural treat of gamelan, bagpipes and Ukrainian singing led by Michael O’Neill with Mearingstone and guests.
After this cultural feast, we gather downstairs for a delicious traditional Ukrainian Supper! Concert and supper $20. Be sure to book your tickets in advance for this very popular event. For tickets call 604-254-3436
This event was on Day 12 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
AHA Media Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHAMEDIA/sets
MEARINGSTONE for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Sunday November 4, 2012
Music in the Streets
MEARINGSTONE
Sunday November 4, 1pm
Meet at Victory Square, 200 block Hastings at Cambie
Join a processional performance of Beledrone, a thrilling aural treat of gamelan and bagpipes, led by Michael O’Neill and I Wayan Sudirana with Mearingstone and guests. The ensemble is a combination of processional Balinese ‘gamelan beleganjur’ and highland pipes, thus ‘bele + drone’. The musicians will play more involved sections in one place and travel to another, linked by processional music of walking gamelan and pipes. Don’t miss this rare opportunity of music in the streets. Free
This event was on Day 12 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
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ART CART at the DNC Street Market for 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Sunday November 4, 2012
Art in the Streets
ART CART at the DNC Street Market
Sunday November 4, 12pm – 5pm
Pigeon Park, E. Hastings and Carrall
As part of the Gallery Gachet & Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show, the newly launched Art Cart will go to the DNC Street Market at Pigeon Park on Sundays November 4, 11, and 18. The Art Cart is an ambulant art gallery that spreads the artistic potential of the Downtown Eastside and aims at creating more urban creative spaces around the City. Today’s artist is Jim Dewar, sketch artist-at-large, who will show sketches he created as one of the participants in the Downtown Eastside Artists in the Streets this past summer. Art is for sale.
This event was on Day 12 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
AHA Media Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHAMEDIA/sets
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